Methodist Personalities
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Leah, Miles, Congregationalist + PM
LP

Originally associated with Congregationalists;
appeared as first LP on PM plan of 1824. Possible disagreement as
in LP minutes [MM MD717/20] 6 December 1830 'Miles Leah to
have appointments' but by 20 June 1831 'Miles Leah to come off
plan'
In Piggot's Directory of
1823 appears as druggist in Ramsey, in 1837
Directory appears to Malew Street, Castletown where he was
'Chemyst and Druggist'. Not found in 1841 census.

Lewin, Juan, 1768-1857

Quote from D. Craine "Mannannan's Isle" (Chap XVI
pp246/7):
A second Jurby author in that language was the remarkable Juan
Lewin who was Parish Sumner in the first half of the nineteenth
century, though this office did not debar him from being a
Methodist preacher.
A native of Lonan, he settled in Jurby at the end of the
eighteenth century and resided there until his death at the age of
eighty-nine in 1857. For many years he lived alone in a cottage at
the Lheeanee Vooar on the Summerhill road, and nearly opposite a
dwelling occupied at a later period by John Kissack, a shoemaker,
who provided the folk-tune collectors with the air of 'Ramsey
Town'. These clay built cottages have now vanished.
Juan was a tailor, but his undisciplined temperament could not
accommodate itself to continuous application. His mind wandered
from his humdrum work, and his customers were sometimes more
surprised than gratified with the eccentricities which appeared in
their garments.
Miss Christian Callister, who made a number of Jurby figures of
the nineteenth century the subject of her sympathetic pen, has
drawn a graphic picture of the Sumner in old agea tall gaunt
man, his long hair falling on bent shoulders, and from under
shaggy brows, when the mood was upon him, his eyes gleaming with
fanatical fire. At such times he strode along the country roads
striking the ground with the staff which was the symbol of his
officea prophet of woe, tormented by dark visions of a
sinful world slipping to perdition. He heard the warning voice of
God in wind and storm, and strongly moved at such times he knocked
at the doors of startled cottagers with the cry, 'Who has sinned
and come short of the glory of God?' and called upon men to
repent.

The rhyming comments on aspects of life in Jurby for which he
was noted and which gave great entertainment to his fellow
parishioners have perished. They were scribbled on odd scraps of
paper when his fancy was stimulated by some story or subject met
with on his journeys through the parish.

Like a number of other Manx writers he was credited with the
authorship of the famous Carval ny Drogh Vraane. What is
more certain is that he was part translator of several temperance
tracts into Manx and wrote two ballads: Arrane er Ineeyn
Irrinee (A Song on Farmers' Daughters) and Yn Chenn
Dolphin (The Old Dolphin) which are included in A. W. Moore's
collection

Lewin, Thomas (PM)

Quote from Curry:
The mainstay at Baldrine for many years was Thomas Lewin, in many
respects a remarkable man.In his time he was the best known and
most popular local preacher on the Island. He was much sought
after to speak at Camp Meetings and open-air school anniversaries.
His great earnestness and abundant. vigour, made doubly forcible
by large intelligence, made him a most interesting personality and
effective speaker.
Son wrote short memoir "Fragrant Memories of my Father
Thomas Lewin"

Lewthwaite, Anthony, (WM)

Son of Alexander Lewthwaite, paper-maker who immigrated from
Egremont to IoM 1789
TBD
No 20 on Douglas Circuit Plan in Aug-Oct 1823; still on the plan
in 1852 (then no 5)